As mentioned, I’m flying out of Korea today and will be in Vancouver, Banff, and Calgary over the next 48 hours. I’ve blogged some post-dated blog posts over the next few days, until I can get stable with a computer again.

For the first time in almost 5 years, I’m making the long hop across the pond. We are leaving this Friday and arriving in Vancouver 10 hrs later. Then taking a bus through BC and spending a day in Banff, before the final leg to Calgary. Then after a week, we are flying to Newf to spend 2 weeks with Bird and Dude, before flying back to Calgary, to begin work. We’ve loaded up on Xanax and gearing up for the turbulence of air travel and reverse culture shock.

Edit: For anyone reading who may care enough to wonder, the blog and my Galbijim contributions will continue while I’m in Canada.

Everything has grinded to a halt on all fronts. Sick as a dog, with a bad cold. Every time I plan to come online and tend to an array of things that need doing, I lapse into complacency and revert to my stubborn habit of combing the net for the latest news on the US Democratic Nomination campaigns. Being Canadian, I know that its wierd to follow it so closely. But I’ve always been fond of US politics and the role that US policies have in influencing world policy. Some hate them for that. But their influential position always leaves hope within me, if their influence is wielded right. Hence why I’m intriguided by the departure of Bush politics, the massive voting turnouts for the Dems, and emergence of Obama, a statesman from our generation, who talks our language.

I find my time glued to certain political blogs. I, naturally, start my day with Drudge. The whole world seems to get reported on Drudge before anywhere. Then, I’m usually reading Politico and First Read. And I finish my most frequented sites with Mark Halperin. Once I run out of material to absorb, I find myself going between HuffPo, DailyKos, and TalkingPointsMemo. Then, I make my way to mustering up energy to do wiki work, server BS, and MyESLJob maintenance. I’ve become a janitor for a collection of websites. No fun. I want to fastforward this year, to where I’ve been in Canada to clear my mental slate and ready to come back, refreshed and ready to launch Project X and turn the page on the past 3 years of web development and web janitor detail. When things become fun again. And the adrenaline and excitement of potential returns to the overall project.

Although we still have to add links on the wiki and forums to point to the new dating site, and I need to add the logo to this blog, all the sites are finally stable and the never-ending cycle of development and tweaking has passed. I’m fucking exhausted and have no energy, time, money, or interest in moving everything into the marketing phases that we now need to undertake. I need to get high for a few months and not think about online stuff for awhile.

I’ve printed off Naver maps of the Sinchon, Edae, and Hongdae areas, in advance of street spelunking in effort to get better directions, photos, and content.

I’m situated out in Guro, these days. Was a whisker away from booking a flight to Canada after all this time away from home. But a sweet temp gig just landed on my lap, a few subway stops away, so I’m foregoing (for the 6th time in the past 5 years) the flight overseas, by at least a month. So my days can be focused on trying to drum up more advertisers for Galbijim, while documenting the Sinchon/Edae/Hongdae area, before having to head across town for the job.

Korea, its job demand, savings and low tax environment always seems to latch on to one of my legs, as soon as the other one gets a whiff of the door. It’s like incessantly falling back into the same relationship for sex, while the other things are secondary.